Voter support for minor parties: Assessing the social and political context of voting at the 2004 European elections in Greater London

Party Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 669-693

  Borisyuk, Galina ^a   Rallings, Colin ^a   Thrasher, Michael ^a   Van Der Kolk, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elections in London; Empirical research; Minor political parties; Ward level aggregate data

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348864396     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068807081816     Document Type: Article

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